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October 7, 2009

ALDS: Lowrie On Roster, Baldelli Uncertain

The addition of Jed Lowrie (over Nick Green) to the ALDS roster comes as no surprise, but it was a little strange to hear Gil Velazquez was chosen over Chris Woodward to be on call, if needed.

The Red Sox would love to have Rocco Baldelli available to face lefties Scott Kazmir and Joe Saunders in Games 3 and 4, but his status (left hip flexor) is still up in the air. Rosters are not due until 1 PM on Thursday.

Mike Lowell's sprained right thumb is now fine. "I'm a prime-time lean machine right now. Write that one."

The unanimity from ESPN on the MFY/Twins is surprising. Don't these guys know that these things are basically toss-ups, that even with a strongly favored team you've only got perhaps a 60% chance of winning the series? This is equivalent of 8 of 8 ESPN analysts thinking that Joe Mauer won't get on base the next time he's up. I'll take the Twins (in 4!) for the following nonsensical reason: it's a classic case of the MFY being expected to win, while the Twins having nothing to lose. The best part will be Pavano's win.

SoSHer mabrowndog:"I dropped a Sox beat writer a line this morning to see if there was any specific reason the Sox are going with Velazquez rather than Woodward as a utility infield contingency, and he just emailed me back:"Something extremely personal is going on with Woodward right now. It is a family emergency that the team has not divulged."Not much to go on, and I can't help but wonder if it involves his newborn son.*****

Listened to Franconas interview on WEEI today. There are only two questions left, MDC and Baldy. MDC because of the car accident and Baldy because of his hip. Rosters have to be in at 10 according to Terry (10 a.m in LA?).

Sox in 4 at worst, would love for a sweep.

As for the MFY's and Twinkies - well it is the Twinkies and they will roll over showing their neck in the 5th inning for the alpha dog MFY's.

California? Sounds good, but way too far from Fenway for me (as well as the Cape, NYC, my family, etc.). But I'd love to get back for a visit. I have only been there once, six years ago, and it was one of my favorite vacations ever.

Tim, in California there are beer hoses on every corner in urban areas. It's not always as cold as you want, but children are seen drinking from hoses to make sure they grow up to be soft-headed liberals.

Must be a new thing Zen, I don't recall any of that last time I was in Cali...haha

Yup, this yankee worship is ridic. They were just talking about how after Duensing went through the lineup once, the super-intelligent genius yankees talk to each other about what he's throwing and how his pitches are moving.